CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Balazs, Rebeka Dora |
|---|---|
| Title | Interpretations and clashes around a participatory design project: The renovation of the Teleki Square Community Park |
| Summary | This thesis explores the renovation of a park and the surrounding discourses in the most stigmatized area of Budapest, the 8th district (Józsefváros), arguing for a relational approach. Since the local people were involved in the design phase of the renovation, the project is hailed as a success by the municipality, the media and the field of architects. Critical voices, however, draw attention to the fact that the project did not involve the marginalized groups of the neighbourhood, and the project supports the implicit gentrifying attempts of the municipality. In these attempts the municipality seems to be supported by the association of local lower middle class participants of the design workshops that manages the park and controls its accessibility. The case study examines four groups – the municipality, the designers, the critics and the association – with utterly different but equally universalized interpretations on the participatory design of the park, and the relations between them. By means of the field analysis of Bourdieu the study sheds light on the emerging and disappearing coincidental coalitions of the different actors in the urban transformation. The analysis draws on empirical data collected from various sources: semi-structured interviews, casual conversations, direct observation, video records of the design workshops, the media and documents of the municipality. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/balazs_rebeka.pdf |
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